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Mrs. Tupaz from PACOIMA, CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Podcasts To Save The Environment

My students need 25 headsets with microphones to create podcasts about the environment.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Tupaz's classroom raised $513

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

How do you call people into action? How do you convince them that the time is now? If not us, then who? How do we spread the word that Earth needs our attention and that we should care?

My students are 9th to 12th graders.

All of them qualify for free meals or reduced fees. They are mostly Hispanics. They are sweet, caring, diligent and hardworking. My students love to study, and they do their best to turn in classroom assignments and projects on time.

My Project

One of the class projects students are expected to do is to produce a podcast called "Why should I care about ___?" They finish the sentence with any environmental issue they consider pressing right now. Students talk about how to save the planet by tree planting, recycling, starting a garden in school, etc. After writing their output, taking pictures of activities, doing research about their environmental cause, they organize their presentation using a graphic organizer, then they write a script to make their presentation flow smoothly. When all of these are ready, each student will add an audio component to the slides as it builds, and as it transitions from slide to slide. Student not only learn the content of their topic, and talk about an environmental issue they feel passionate about, but they also get to apply their creativity and technological skills.

We go out to save the environment and we call people to action to join us and save the environment.

In our class, we do this through class projects and podcasts about our projects. This way we show the word that we care.

Mrs. Tupaz Vaughn Next Century Learning Center Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

PACOIMA, CA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

120 students impacted 12donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
HEADPHONES MULTIMEDIA STEREO W/ MICROPHONE • ABC School Supply, Inc $13.29 25 $332.25

Materials cost

$332.25

Vendor shipping charges

$33.22

Sales tax

$30.40

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$435.85

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.91

Total project goal

$512.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$512.76

8 Donors

-$256.37

Donations toward project cost

-$217.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.45

match offer

-$256.39

Match offer toward project cost

-$217.93

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.46

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$0.00

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